Wednesday, September 19, 2007

The Daily Mail has a shit article today on size 0 women. In line with my last entry re: anorexia and mental illness, the article jumps to one conclusion for the claimed problem of infertility in young women - skinniness. Now I'm all about criticising cultural standards of unhealthy body-types like the woman shown in the photo of the article, and I believe that very low BMI affects fertility, but I was pissed off early in the piece:"Extreme dieting can disturb the hormones and affect the sex drive - which could mean bad news for the men in their lives, warned expert Dr Sarah Brewer."Wow! Sarah Brewer can fuck off. Bad news for the men? She offers no concern for the woman who's sex drive is lowered or hormones affected, no... it's bad news for the guys who were hopin to get some. This coming from a doctor who endorsed the dangerous Atkin's diet .

She goes on to say, ""Women are also often trying to get thin so they are more attractive to the opposite sex. But this will lower their sex drive and defeat the point of trying to be thin in the first place."

I find this is insulting on so many levels! She's saying that a woman is only attractive to the opposite sex if said woman has a high sex drive. Again, if a girl ain't gonna put out, the guys are goneso.

The epidemic of thinness and eating disorders is much much much much more complicated than getting laid.

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Because women's work is never done and is underpaid or unpaid or boring or repetitious and we're the first to get fired and what we look like is more important than what we do and if we get raped it's our fault and if we get beaten we must have provoked it and if we raise our voices we are nagging bitches and if we ask our doctor too many questions we're neurotic and/or pushy and if we expect childcare we are selfish and if we stand up for our rights we're aggressive and "unfeminine" and if we don't we are typical weak females and we still can't get adequate safe contraceptive but men can walk on the moon and for lots and lots of other reasons, we are part of the women's liberation movement.